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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2010

2006

2012

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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